The challenge of feminist geography
Sophia Bowlby
University of Reading · Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Linda Peake
York University · Department of Social Science
Journal of Geography in Higher Education 13(1):90-92 · January 1989
This issue of Arena is introduced and edited by Linda Peake of Kingston Polytechnic,London
THE CHALLENGE OF FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY
Many past editions of Arena have been based on responses to mainline articles but this one turns its attention instead to what has been a major force in academic education in the 1980s. Feminism, and the challenge it presents to our and rocentric discipline, is the focus here. For over 15 years articles by feminist geographers have been published in mainstream journals: descriptive accounts of women's spatial behaviour patterns have appeared alongside feminist critiques of research conducted in all the major theoretical approaches in geography. Many of these studies are listed in the appended bibliography, and their existence has served to establish the centrality of gender relations to an in-depth understanding of socio-spatial structures and human-environmental relations. But there is another side to feminist geography that is often discussed at fringe meetings, in corridors, and in telephone conversations, but rarely in the formal channels of academe. Attempts to air our views over opportunities to teach feminist courses, our status vis-a-vis male colleagues, and our efforts at networking, have not been given a forum for systematic treatment. This edition of Arena serves to redress this imbalance. With contributions
from feminist geographers, covering 21 countries, the aim is to provide a broad overview of feminist geography covering its origins, current institutional status, issues of teaching and research, and its future prospects. Coming on the heels of the formation of the International Geographical Union Study Group on Gender (in August 1988) this is a timely contribution to the attempt to extend communication to all geographers about the emerging international network of feminist geography.
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